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Portents of war

Writing usual cliches about Bombay and Kashmir mayhem seems meaningless.

So does thinking aloud on the recent Middle East crisis.

Those Indians who seek to emulate Israel might want to think twice and think hard. About everything.

Sepoy forwarded this sobering commentary by David Hirst, who has reported Middle East for the Guardian for nearly forty years. I can not find a single line or even a paragraph that summarizes to highlight and quote because a story about a tragic place like Lebanon isn’t about zazzy oneliners or concluding paragraphs.

As war looms large over Middle East and Manmohan Singh talks tough in Delhi, we feel helpless and sit quietly. See Postglobal for responses from different parts of the world to David Ignatius’s question: What does the crisis feel like on the ground and, from where you sit, what looks like the right way to defuse it?

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